Carefully read Patrick Henry's speech to the Second Virginia Convention, paying close attention to the speaker's diction and sentence structure. Then write a well-supported essay in which you support, refute, or qualify modern historians' charge that Patrick Henry tended toward demagoguery and propaganda in this address. Do not merely summarize the speech. Due Thursday 9/3/15
Choose one prompt from the options below and write a five-paragraph essay on the topic in response.
1 Ultimately, who bears the most responsibility for Billy’s death: Claggart, Vere, or Billy himself?
2 In what ways does Melville dramatize the conflict between a person’s inner self (e.g. their essential identity, impulses, etc.) and that person’s role in society? Consider the Dansker, Vere, the Chaplain, and the drumhead court.
3 Consider Billy’s role as the Handsome Sailor and how it relates to his innocence. Does Billy retain his innocence despite his death? Does his death redeem him?
4 Trace and analyze the role of justice in Billy Budd. Does a strict adherence to positive law render a just outcome?
5 Throughout Billy Budd, the title character is compared to a prelapsarian (i.e., before the Fall) Adam. What is the meaning or significance of this analogy?
Choose one of the following films and complete a satirical analysis:
nAmerican Beauty
nBarton Fink
nBest in Show nThe Cable Guy
nDeath to Smoochy
nDr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
nDrop Dead Gorgeous
nElection
nHeathers
nIdiocracy
nL.A. Story
nMan of the Year
nNatural Born Killers
nOffice Space
nSaved!
nSerial Mom
nStarship Troopers
nThank You for Smoking
nThis is Spinal Tap
nThree Amigos
nThe Truman Show
nTo Die For
nWag the Dog
nWayne’s World
Choose one prompt from the options below and write a five-paragraph essay on the topic in response. All papers must be 3 pages in length and submitted in proper MLA format.
1 Ultimately, who bears the most responsibility for Billy’s death: Claggart, Vere, or Billy himself?
2 In what ways does Melville dramatize the conflict between a person’s inner self (e.g. their essential identity, impulses, etc.) and that person’s role in society? Consider the Dansker, Vere, the Chaplain, and the drumhead court.
3 Consider Billy’s role as the Handsome Sailor and how it relates to his innocence. Does Billy retain his innocence despite his death? Does his death redeem him?
4 Trace and analyze the role of justice in Billy Budd. Does a strict adherence to positive law render a just outcome?
5 Throughout Billy Budd, the title character is compared to a prelapsarian (i.e., before the Fall) Adam. What is the meaning or significance of this analogy?
Read the Hazlitt piece (prompt 2) and complete a bullet analysis. Read the Dream and Nightmare paper and complete the assignment for Thursday.
-http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/_ap06_frq_englishlang_51616.pdf
Read, annotate, and analyze the article from the following link: http://www.theonion.com/article/apple-announces-plans-for-new-ipad-with-extra-stor-31067
In addition, identify the type of satire as well as determine who/what the article is satirizing and why. - Due Wed, 10/28th
Go to the link: http://www.buffalonian.com/hnews/1869onlyanigger.html
Read and annotate the newspaper article by Mark Twain. Analyze in an essay the satire used by the author to accomplish his purpose. Due: Monday 11/23
Choose one prompt from the options below and write a five-paragraph essay on the topic in response.
1 Ultimately, who bears the most responsibility for Billy’s death: Claggart, Vere, or Billy himself?
2 In what ways does Melville dramatize the conflict between a person’s inner self (e.g. their essential identity, impulses, etc.) and that person’s role in society? Consider the Dansker, Vere, the Chaplain, and the drumhead court.
3 Consider Billy’s role as the Handsome Sailor and how it relates to his innocence. Does Billy retain his innocence despite his death? Does his death redeem him?
4 Trace and analyze the role of justice in Billy Budd. Does a strict adherence to positive law render a just outcome?
5 Throughout Billy Budd, the title character is compared to a prelapsarian (i.e., before the Fall) Adam. What is the meaning or significance of this analogy?
Read the articles from the following links: http://ndla.no/en/node/95082
http://www.theblackandblue.com/2008/03/17/on-american-realism-and-mark-twains-the-man-who-corrupted-hadleyberg/
be ready to discuss the ideas next class.
Choose one of the following films and complete a satirical analysis:
nAmerican Beauty
nBarton Fink
nBest in Show
nThe Cable Guy
nDeath to Smoochy
nDr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
nDrop Dead Gorgeous
nElection
nHeathers
nIdiocracy
nL.A. Story
nMan of the Year
nNatural Born Killers
nOffice Space
nSaved!
nSerial Mom
nStarship Troopers
nThank You for Smoking
nThis is Spinal Tap
nThree Amigos
nThe Truman Show
nTo Die For
nWag the Dog
nWayne’s World
Carefully read Patrick Henry’s 1775 Speech to the Second Virginia Convention, paying close attention to the speaker’s word choice and sentence structure. Then write a well-supported essay in which you support, refute, or qualify modern historians’ charges that Patrick Henry tended toward demagoguery and propaganda in this address. Do not merely summarize the speech.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/gwbush911addresstothenation.htm
http://www.theonion.com/article/apple-announces-plans-for-new-ipad-with-extra-stor-31067
Choose one prompt from the options below and write a five-paragraph essay on the topic in response. All papers must be 3 pages in length and submitted in proper MLA format.
1 Ultimately, who bears the most responsibility for Billy’s death: Claggart, Vere, or Billy himself?
2 In what ways does Melville dramatize the conflict between a person’s inner self (e.g. their essential identity, impulses, etc.) and that person’s role in society? Consider the Dansker, Vere, the Chaplain, and the drumhead court.
3 Consider Billy’s role as the Handsome Sailor and how it relates to his innocence. Does Billy retain his innocence despite his death? Does his death redeem him?
4 Trace and analyze the role of justice in Billy Budd. Does a strict adherence to positive law render a just outcome?
5 Throughout Billy Budd, the title character is compared to a prelapsarian (i.e., before the Fall) Adam. What is the meaning or significance of this analogy?
6 A topic of your choice that has met with my approval.
http://ndla.no/en/node/95082